Indemnity Only (A V. I. Warshawski novel)
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In this gripping adventure, the first V.I. Warshawski mystery, America’s top private eye is tossed into dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly.
Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V I’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter's dead body instead, her client disappears. Her efforts to track down her client and learn his true identity take her deep into a labyrinth of fraud and violence.
By the time V.I. figures out the answers she is in a race to find the missing young woman—before the murderers do.
Books in the V.I. Warshawski series
1. Indemnity Only (1982)
2. Deadlock (1984)
3. Killing Orders (1985)
4. Bitter Medicine (1987)
5. Blood Shot / Toxic Shock (U.K. title) (1988)
6. Burn Marks (1990)
7. Guardian Angel (1992)
8. Tunnel Vision (1994)
9. Hard Time (1999)
10. Total Recall (2001)
11. Blacklist (2003)
12. Fire Sale (2005)
13. Hardball (2009)
14. Body Work (2010)
15. Breakdown (2012)
16. Critical Mass (2013)
17. Brush Back (2015)
18. Fallout (2017)
19. Shell Game (2018)
20. Dead Land (2020)
21. Overboard (2022)
Author's official website
Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V I’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter's dead body instead, her client disappears. Her efforts to track down her client and learn his true identity take her deep into a labyrinth of fraud and violence.
By the time V.I. figures out the answers she is in a race to find the missing young woman—before the murderers do.
Books in the V.I. Warshawski series
1. Indemnity Only (1982)
2. Deadlock (1984)
3. Killing Orders (1985)
4. Bitter Medicine (1987)
5. Blood Shot / Toxic Shock (U.K. title) (1988)
6. Burn Marks (1990)
7. Guardian Angel (1992)
8. Tunnel Vision (1994)
9. Hard Time (1999)
10. Total Recall (2001)
11. Blacklist (2003)
12. Fire Sale (2005)
13. Hardball (2009)
14. Body Work (2010)
15. Breakdown (2012)
16. Critical Mass (2013)
17. Brush Back (2015)
18. Fallout (2017)
19. Shell Game (2018)
20. Dead Land (2020)
21. Overboard (2022)
Author's official website
I finally read my first Sara Paretsky book! Indemnity Only was good and I liked the main character, V.I. Warshawski a lot. It was cool to read a book set in the late seventies - in the very beginning V.I. has to get a picture of John Thayer, so she has to trick his firm into giving their annual report to her. Oh, the times before internet...
One thing I also enjoyed about this book was the presence of feminism. V.I. has to deal with constant patronizing and belittlement from many of the men around her, so she has to stand up for herself. There are several strong women character in the novel, and during her investigation she also visits the university women's group.
I'm looking forward to reading more of the V.I. Warshawski series.
One thing I also enjoyed about this book was the presence of feminism. V.I. has to deal with constant patronizing and belittlement from many of the men around her, so she has to stand up for herself. There are several strong women character in the novel, and during her investigation she also visits the university women's group.
I'm looking forward to reading more of the V.I. Warshawski series.
I re-read the first V.I. Warshawski mystery, as I thought I'd like to read through the whole series, but realized I remembered nothing about the book that I read 8 years ago. So, the whole mystery was new as I had no idea who the murderer was, and I liked the book a lot the second time around too. It's set during the summer of 1979, and it was nice to read a book that brought that time to life.